Word: hopsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ELTON J. HOPSON...
Died. Howard Colwell Hopson, 67, nimble promoter who pyramided 'the Associated Gas & Electric System into a billion-dollar holding-company empire that collapsed in the '30's; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Greenwich, Conn. Charged with using the mails to defraud, Hopson could account for such expenditures as a 10? bone for an unidentified dog, but not for $20 million swindled from stockholders. Jailed on a five-year sentence in 1941, he was released in 1944 to live out his life in a mental sanitarium...